Created from scratch in the plains of central Brazil in the 1950s and 1960s, Brasilia is the largest city in the world that did not exist at the beginning of the 20th Century. It lacks the sexiness and excitement of Rio and the earthiness of Sao Paolo, but this was deliberate. Remarkable in its own [...]Read More »

Many of our streets haven’t changed in decades, even when they’ve proven dangerous, or the surrounding communities’ needs have changed. When the roads have been altered, they have often been made wider, straighter, and faster, rather than more livable. Our Rightsizing Streets Guide aims to help planners and community members update their streets to make [...]Read More »

AASHTO, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, is a non-profit, non-partisan association representing highway and transportation departments in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. AASHTO’s Executive Director, John Horsley, and Program Director for Engineering, Jim McDonnell, joined PPS’s Gary Toth and Mina Keyes for a discussion about how [...]Read More »

Gary Toth, Senior Director of Transportation Initiatives at PPS, discusses the Obama administration’s livability platform that is currently being miscast as exclusively favoring high-density development. We are entering a dangerous era in the history of transportation. Our existing infrastructure is crumbling, and the public has lost its willingness to fund transportation improvements. Investment in high-speed, [...]Read More »

Gary Toth following up on his reflections on the USDOT webinar, Forum on Livability. As a career transportation geek, I found it particularly encouraging to hear talk about a new transportation planning process attached to performance measures which go beyond the overused and myopic focus solely on auto oriented benchmarks such as pavement quality, bridge [...]Read More »

Communities and advocates have been pressing the US transportation industry to be more proactive about achieving livability goals for decades. Yet, the transportation industry continued to pursue the notion that the safety and mobility of the motoring public was paramount. Prior to the Obama Administration, these calls fell on deaf ears; now, it seems, we [...]Read More »